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...suitable for Taiwan, and, by extension, for China, Hong Kong and Macau. To be sure, his administration has not distinguished itself, and frequent fisticuffs in the legislature?including the recent image of a legislator chewing the papers of a rival?do not convey a positive image of the island's political process...
...Neither the man nor the system, however, are fully to blame. Chen has been ineffective, but he has also been hamstrung by some factors beyond his control. He has repeatedly invited the Chinese to talk with him, and he has refrained from declaring independence, changing the island's name or flag, or holding a public referendum on Taiwan's status?all of which would provoke Beijing. Yet China's leaders have cold-shouldered him because they view him in only one dimension?as a "splittist"?without seemingly taking into account the need for Chen, an elected official, to cater...
...This standoff is rooted in the past. For much of Taiwan's modern history, the island was essentially a one-party state ruled by the KMT, which brooked little dissent. Only in 1986 did then President Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son, allow the presence of an opposition party, only a year later did he lift martial law and government control of the press, and only last year did the KMT properly elect its own party leader for the first time. The KMT is not accustomed to being out of power. Instead of working together with the administration...
...governance of their lives?and of their power to kick out officials who don't deliver. The judiciary is largely impartial and the press largely free. These all provide an excellent institutional base on which to build. Taiwan's leaders will come and go, but the island's democracy is here to stay...
...during Christmas 1967, instantly hit audience heart strings. And in presenting young lives touched by the shadow of death, from cancer to Vietnam, Gow poetically dramatized a country's coming of age. "Another Australia emerges," dramaturg May-Brit Akerholt has written, "a country which is no longer an isolated island but part of an extended world...